This recent movement in this topic happened due to the dissatisfaction with the result of the application made by a user. Your rejection doesn't mean that the application process is unfair. All the aspects of every application are reviewed by the Contributors, and then, the majority decide if the user should be approved or not. If you disagree with the result of your application, feel free to reply to your ticket. Do not bring this to the forums.
There's no such thing as having to be friends with someone within the team to get the influencer pawn. Like I said, all aspects are reviewed and, even if you become friends with most of them, the review of the social media stats will give us enough information and if it's indicated that your page has anything fake, no friendship will save your application from that. Also, remember that the number of followers is just that, a number. We have to review the applicant's page as a whole to truly identify them as an influencer. Adding to that, xat has the final say on applications. We could decide to approve someone and admins deny the application, so there are more variables here than you think.
You can bring suggestions to this topic, and/or ideas on how to improve it, not discuss the result of your application or the criteria we use to grant it. This doesn't mean that we're ignoring what you think, but considering the idea that the influencer pawn stands for, the selection process has been refined as best as possible to achieve the expected purpose, then there's no point in discussing this. Again, want to discuss your application? Reply to your ticket. Do you have a suggestion? Feel free to post here and we will discuss it with everyone else. Thank you for understanding.